Published papers

*Denotes Meyer-Kaiser Lab member

Grupstra CGB, Gomez-Coralles M, Fifer JE, Aichelman HE, Meyer-Kaiser KS, Prada C, Davies SW. 2024. Integrating cryptic diversity into coral evolution, symbiosis, and conservation. Nature Ecol Evol Link

Paxton AB, McGonigle C, Damour M, Holly G, Caporaso A, Campbell PB, Meyer-Kaiser KS, Hamdan LJ, Mires CH*, Taylor JC. 2024. Shipwreck ecology: understanding the functions and processes from microbes to megafauna. Bioscience 74: 12-24 Link

Schrage KR*, Meyer-Kaiser KS. 2023. Fine-resolution patterns of fouling community settlement, growth, and mortality using the CATAIN camera system. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 711: 17-29 Link

Meyer-Kaiser KS, Schrage KR*, Suman S, Bailey J, Girdhar Y. 2023. CATAIN: an underwater camera system for studying settlement in fouling communities at high temporal resolution. Limnol Oceanogr Methods 21: 345-355 Link

Mires CH*, Meyer-Kaiser KS. 2023. A case study in Maritime Heritage Ecology: understanding how structural changes to the 1898 shipwreck Portland affect biological diversity and colonization. J Maritim Archaeol 18: 197-218 Link 

Rivera HE*, Cohen AL, Thompson JR, Baums IB, Fox MD, Meyer-Kaiser KS. 2022. Palau's warmest reefs harbor thermally tolerant corals that thrive across different habitats. Comms Bio 5: 1394 Link 

Meyer-Kaiser KS, Mires CH*. 2022. Underwater cultural heritage is integral to marine ecosystems. Trends Ecol Evol 37: P815-818 Link

Meyer-Kaiser KS, Mires CH*, Kovacs M, Kovacs E, Haskell B. 2022. Structural factors driving benthic invertebrate community structure on historical shipwrecks in a large North Atlantic marine sanctuary. Mar Poll Bull 178: 113622. Link 

Meyer-Kaiser KS, Schrage KR*, von Appen W-J, Hoppmann M, Lochthofen N, Sundfjord A, Soltwedel T. 2022. Larval dispersal and recruitment of benthic invertebrates in the Arctic Ocean. Progr Oceanogr 203: 102776. Link

Meyer-Kaiser KS, Mires CH*, Haskell B. 2022. Invertebrate communities on shipwrecks in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 685: 19-29. Link

Meyer-Kaiser K, Chen H, Liu X, Laney SR. 2021. Oceanographic influence on the early life-history stages of benthic invertebrates during the polar night. Polar Biol 44: 1781-1793 Link

Mazurkiewicz M, Meyer-Kaiser K, Sweetman AK, Renaud PE, Włodarska-Kowalczuk M. 2021. Megabenthic standing stocks and organic carbon demand in a warming Arctic. Progr Oceanogr 196: 102616. Link

Meyer-Kaiser KS, Smith A*, Soltwedel T. 2021. Ontogenetic development of the crinoid Poliometra prolixa in the Arctic deep sea. Invertebr Biol 140: e12331. Link

Meyer-Kaiser KS, Plowman CQ, Soltwedel T. 2021. Reproduction, recruitment, and growth of the Arctic deep-sea hydroid Bouillonia cornucopia. Invertebr Biol 140: e12332. Link

DiBenedetto MH, Meyer-Kaiser KS, Torjman B, Wheeler JD, Mullineaux LS. 2020. Departures from isotropy: the kinematics of a larval snail in response to food. J Exp Biol 224: jeb239178 Link

Mires CH*, Kovacs E, Meyer-Kaiser K, Haskell B. 2020. Return to Portland 2019: Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and telepresence. 2020 Underwater Archaeol Proc: 101-109. Link

Meyer-Kaiser KS. 2020. Carryover effects of brooding conditions on larvae in the slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 643: 87-97. Link


Cunha MR, Génio L, Pradillon F, Clavel Henry M, Beaulieu S, Birch J, Campuzano FJ, Carréton M, De Leo F, Gula J, Laming S, Lindsay D, Matos FL, Metaxas A, Meyer-Kaiser K, Mills S, Queiroga H, Rodrigues CF, Sarrazin J, Watanabe H, Young R, Young CM. 2020. Foresight workshop on advances in ocean biological observations: a sustained system for deep-ocean meroplankton Res Ideas Outcomes 6: e54284. Link 

Meyer-Kaiser KS, Houlihan EP, Wheeler JD, McCorkle DC, Mullineaux LS. 2019. Behavioral response of eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) larvae to chemical settlement cue is not impaired by low pH. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 623: 13-24. Link

Meyer-Kaiser KS, Bergmann M, Soltwedel T, Klages M. 2019. Recruitment of Arctic deep-sea invertebrates: results from a long-term hard-substrate colonization experiment at the Long-Term Ecological Research observatory HAUSGARTEN. Limnol Oceanogr 64: 1924-1938. Link

Maciejewski MF, Meyer KS, Wheeler JD, Anderson EJ, Pittoors NC, Mullineaux LS. 2019. Helical swimming as an exploratory behavior in competent larvae of the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 510: 86-94. Link

Sweetman AK, Smith CR, Shulse CN, Maillot B, Lindh M, Church MJ, Meyer KS, van Oevelen D, Stratmann T, Gooday AJ. 2018. Key role of bacteria in the short-term cycling of carbon at the abyssal seafloor in a low POC flux region of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Limnol Oceanogr 64: 694-713. Link

Meyer KS, Wheeler JD, Houlihan EP, Mullineaux LS. 2018. Desperate planktotrophs: decreased settlement selectivity with age in competent eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) larvae. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 599: 93-106. Link

Meyer KS, Li Y, Young CM. 2018. Oceanographic and biological influences on recruitment of benthic invertebrates to hard substrata on the Oregon shelf. Estuar Coast Shelf S 208: 1-8. Link

Meyer KS, Sweetman AK, Kukliński P, Leopold P, Vogedes D, Berge J, Griffiths C, Young CM, Renaud PE. 2017. Recruitment of benthic invertebrates in high Arctic fjords: relation to temperature, depth, and season. Limnol Oceanogr 62: 2732-2744. Link

Meyer KS, Brooke SD, Wolf M, Sweetman AK, Young CM. 2017. Invertebrate communities on historical shipwrecks in the western Atlantic: relation to islands. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 566: 17-29. Link

Sweetman AK, Thurber AR, Smith CR, Levin LA, Mora C, Wei C-L, Gooday AJ, Jones DOB, Rex M, Yasuhara M, Ingels J, Ruhl HA, Frieder CA, Danovaro R, Wurzberg L, Baco A, Grupe BM, Pasulka A, Meyer KS, Dunlop KM, Henry L-A, Roberts JM. 2017. Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems. Elem Sci Ant. 5:4. Link 

Meyer KS. 2017. Islands in a sea of mud: insights from terrestrial island theory for community assembly on insular marine habitats. Adv Mar Bio 76: 1-40. Link

Meyer KS, Young CM, Sweetman AK, Bergmann M, Soltwedel T. 2016. Rocky islands in a sea of mud: biotic and abiotic factors structuring deep-sea dropstone communities. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 556: 45-57.  Link

Meyer KS, Wagner JKS, Ball B, Turner P, Young CM, Van Dover CL. 2016. Hyalinoecia artifex: field notes on a charismatic and abundant epifaunal polychaete on the US Atlantic continental margin. Invert Biol 135: 211-214. Link

Meyer KS, Sweetman AK. 2015. Observation of a living macroalga at 166 m in a high Arctic fjord. Mar Biodiv Rec 8: e58. Link

Meyer KS, Sweetman AK, Young CM, Renaud PE. 2015. Environmental factors structuring Arctic megabenthos – a case study from a shelf and two fjords. Front Mar Sci 2: 22. Link

Soltwedel T, Bauerfeind E, Bergmann M, Bracher A, Budaeva N, Busch K, Cherkasheva A, Fahl K, Grzelak K, Hasemann C, Jacob M, Kraft A, Lalande C, Metfies K, Nöthig E-M, Meyer K, Quéric N-V, Schewe I, Włodarska-Kowalczuk M, Klages M. 2015. Natural variability or anthropogenically-induced variation? Insights from 15 years of multidisciplinary observations at the Arctic marine LTER site HAUSGARTEN. Ecol Ind 65: 85-102. Link

Cumberlidge N, Klaus S, Meyer KS, Koppin JC. 2015. New collections of freshwater crabs from northern Madagascar, with the description of a new species of Foza Reed & Cumberlidge, 2006 (Brachyura, Potamonautidae), and comments on their conservation status. European J Taxonomy 109: 1-15. Link

Meyer KS, Cumberlidge N, Koppin JC. 2014. A new genus and species of freshwater crab from Madagascar (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamoidea, Potamonautidae). Zootaxa 3884: 65-72. Link

Meyer KS, Soltwedel T, Bergmann M. 2014. High biodiversity on a deep-water reef in the eastern Fram Strait. PLoS ONE 9(8): e105424. Link

Sanford E, Gaylord B, Hettinger A, Lenz EA, Meyer K, Hill TM. 2014. Ocean acidification increases the vulnerability of native oysters to predation by invasive snails. Proc R Soc B 281: 20132681. Link

Meyer KS, Bergmann M, Soltwedel T. 2013. Interannual variation in the epibenthic megafauna at the shallowest station of the HAUSGARTEN observatory (79° N, 6° E). Biogeosciences 10: 3479- 3492. Link

Meyer KS, Cumberlidge N. 2011. A revision of the freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae) of the Lake Kivu drainage basin in Central and East Africa. Zootaxa 3011: 45-58. Link

Cumberlidge N, Meyer KS. 2011. The freshwater crabs of Lake Kivu (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae). J Nat Hist 45: 1835-1857. Link

Cumberlidge N, Ng PKL, Yeo DCJ, Naruse T, Meyer KS, Esser LJ. 2011. Diversity, endemism, and conservation of the freshwater crabs of China (Brachyura: Potamidae and Gecarcinaucidae). Int Zool 6: 45-55. Link

Cumberlidge N, Meyer KS. 2010. A new species of Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838, from southwestern Ethiopia (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamoidea, Potamonautidae). In: Fransen CF, de Grave S, Ng PKL, editors. Studies on Malacostraca: Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis Memorial Volume. Crustaceana Monographs 14: 179-190. Link

Cumberlidge N, Meyer KS. 2009. A new species of Foza Reed & Cumberlidge, 2006, from northern Madagascar (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamoidea, Potamonautidae), with a redescription of F. goudoti (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) comb. n., and comments on Skelosophusa prolixa Ng & Takeda, 1994. In: Bruce N (Ed) Advances in the taxonomy and biogeography of Crustacea in the Southern Hemisphere. ZooKeys 18: 77-89. Link

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